Uganda finishes tenth at All-Africa Golf Championships as Morocco wins first title

Uganda registered one of their worst performances in an African tournament in recent years after they finished tenth out of fifteen as the All-Africa Amateur Golf Championship ended at the El Gouna Golf Club in Egypt on Friday.

The Uganda Golf Union (UGU) had opted to field four Uganda’s US-based golfers instead of the Uganda-based team that lost to Kenya in both the Africa Region IV Golf Championship and the Victoria Cup in August with the hope of getting better results, but the US-based golfers failed to perform to their expectations, failing to match the competition in Egypt.

Apart from Emmanuel Jakisa who showed a bit of consistency with his scores, the other team members; Ronald Otile, Collins Ajidra, and Titus Okwong performed below par.

Uganda was eighth after the first round but slipped to 9th after the second-round action having carded 229 from their best three players on the day; Emmanuel Jakisa, Collin Ajidra, and Ronald Otile. But their score was a stroke more than their opening round total of 228.

It was only Jakisa who improved his first-round individual score by five strokes, returning one-over 73 in each of the subsequent rounds, Ajidra who was Uganda’s best in the opening round with three-over 75 played five over 77 (2 strokes more than what he returned in the first round) in the second and third rounds, which he could only improve in the last round by a stroke.

And that was all for Flavia Namakula’s charges against Ugandans who failed to improve drastically and slipped a further two positions in the end.

Uganda last competed in the 2018 edition where they were good for fourth place at the Mont Choisy Le Golf course in Port Louis, Mauritius.

For the first time, Morocco came to the table of men by beating record winners South Africa to the championship by three strokes, to win their first African title, although it was South African Jonathan Broomhead that took the individual honours with an overall 18-under-par 270 over the four rounds.

Final leaderboard
Morocco       204 211 206 204 825
South Africa 208 212 205 203 82
Kenya          215 216 214 213 854
Tunisia           213 219 211 212 858
Egypt            225 220 227 212 884
Zimbabwe    223 231 212 219 885
Zambia         229 226 222 216 893
Mauritius      227 224 224 222 897
Namibia       229 232 219 217 897
Uganda         228 229 224 227 908
Ghana           232 227 227 226 912
Seychelles    232 239 227 232 935
Gabon           235 237 236 228 936
Angola          261 248 237 251 997
Cameroon      296 284 213 194 977

Uganda individual scores

Emmanuel Jakisa 78 73 73 73 297
Colline Ajidra      75 77 77 74 302
Ronald Otile         75 79 78 80 312
Titus Okwong       83 79 74 85 321